ENGLISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING 2

The Work of Robert Gallon (1845-1925) who exhibited from 1868 to 1903 in London, at the Royal Academy from 1873 to1903 and at the British Institution.

Notes from an auction catalogue: "Gallon painted in a realistic style comparable to Benjamin Williams Leader and George Vicat Cole. A clean fluency of manipulation is a hallmark of Gallon's technique, the brush indicating form with a very smoothly controlled line. The atmosphere of his pictures was most distinctive, with richly coloured skies and filtered warm sunlight touching every corner of the canvas. Many of these fluently detailed pictures gain added immediacy from having been painted entirely 'pein air'."